laicise

• Verbe désuet signifiant rendre laïque ou séculier, ou retirer l'influence de l'Église de quelque chose.

An obsolete verb meaning to make secular or to remove clerical influence from something.

1. Reduce to lay statusC2formalbritish

   To remove clerical or ecclesiastical character from something; to make secular or non-religious.

   laïciser

   • The government moved to laicise the education system.
   • The church decided to laicise several of its institutions.
   • They voted to laicise the hospital's administration.

   Synonymesdeconsecratedefrockseculariseunfrock

   Antonymesconsecrateordainsanctify